newlands bishop farm Archives

09 Jun 2017

Goat Goals

Our good friends from Loyds joined us from all over the country again on Wednesday to help us with another mammoth challenge! This time there was a deadline to the task as the team had some new arrivals to get the enclosure ready for, three baby goats! Thirty five willing employees from Lloyds joined us to help build the new enclosure which required a lot of muscle power! Over thirty posts had to be bashed into the ground before the group could even begin with the wire fencing on top and the gravel boards at the bottom. There were also…

31 Mar 2017

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Storm Doris Vodafone Rescue Team

On Wednesday a team of 10 Vodafone service managers joined us at the farm to help start rebuilding some of the fencing damaged by storm Doris. They very kindly decided to help re-build our muck heap which looked like a bad guy with laser vision had sliced through the concrete posts after the shelter had taken off and smashed through it. It was a huge task to under take and involved digging out all the original posts, creating new holes and concreting the new posts back in again. The painting crew giving the panels a new lease of life and…

28 Mar 2017

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Lamb Spam!

March means lambing at the farm and this year has been especially busy with lots of lambs arriving! This year we welcomed 12 lambs, which broke down into a set of quads, two sets of triplets and one set of twins. The ewes have got their work cut out that's for sure! We will be keeping a close eye on them to make sure that the ewes are getting all the extra feed they need and that non of the lambs are missing out on any milk! The lambing camera worked really well and allowed us to be on site…

16 Feb 2017

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Fancy February

February has seen some huge developments at the farm! Heritage and Sons construction came to the farm to install several new water troughs in the fields and to provide water to our vegetable beds so that during the summer months we don't have to find miles and miles of hose pipes! The project workers loved watching the digger do all of the hard work and as the weather was so dry you would hardly know any work has been done at all! Keeping bio diversity and productivity in mind, the woodland has now reached semi maturity and the canopy has…

10 Jan 2017

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Our bug hotel is officially open!

Happy new year to all our lovely supporters of the farm! We had some great news last week that all of our ewes are pregnant so we will be lambing again in March! This will be our third time lambing but with only four ewes this year. All being well we will then lamb all 9 of our ewes in 2018 which will hopefully result in lots more lambs for us to look after! The frosty mornings make everything sparkle at the farm and in turn we usually get a lovely get sunrise to match! The frost also means…

10 Dec 2016

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A Christmas Surprise

The countdown to Christmas is now fast approaching and we started it off with a fantastic sales day! Thank you so much to everyone who came and supported us, all the money raised goes directly back to the farm and helps us carry on developing further. Those of you who came on the sales day will have met our very special new member at the farm... As part of a second year project a group of students from the university of Worcester had to raise some money to enhance a community. They very kindly selected the farm and set about…

16 Oct 2016

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New Look Blog!

We hope that you like the new look to our blog site! It is still a work in progress but we will continue to update it throughout the year! Badger and Jimbo were keen to upload their selfie for us all to see on the new slider feature! October brings the start of the tupping season so 'Harry the ram' joined the farm this week. All being well we will hopefully have some more lambs again in March! We decided to keep all of the ewe lambs born at the farm this year and they are happy on 'lawn mower…

27 Sep 2016

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Successful September

The farm welcomed over 20 staff from N Power and Lloyds last week to help us out with various jobs around the farm! We now have a lovely neat log pile which was long over due for a sort out! They also made us a brand new picnic bench as well as re staining our stable block ready for winter! As always we would like to say a massive thank you to all those involved as without your help we wouldn't be able to tackle such large projects at the farm! The horses are all looking really well (mostly too…

12 Sep 2016

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Open Day 16th September

Don't forget its the farms open day this Friday 1-3PM! There will be lots to see and do and it looks like the weather might behave for us! Be sure to come and check us out!

01 Aug 2016

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August Already!

Our good friends from National Grid came to help us out at the farm again last week! They made us a new bench for the sea-side garden and helped us carry on with the log splitting. The team of 15 worked relentlessly through the day and considering it was the hottest day of the year so far with temperatures reaching 30 degrees we would like to give them an extra special thank you! We have had some great weddings at the farm this year with our last one being held this weekend. Our last even of the year for weddings…